Author	Thread: Halloween
Admin	Halloween Posted : 14 Oct, 2010 07:32 AM How should Christians handle October 31st? Is it harmless fun? Is it a good chance to minister to the community through a church carnival or through passing out tracts to trick-or-treaters? Is it something we should completely boycott? Post Reply
DontHitThatMark View Profile History	Halloween Posted : 15 Oct, 2010 10:57 PM I'll dress up and eat candy on the day before Halloween then. Is there a difference? What makes a thing sinful? :peace::peace: Post Reply
View Profile History	Halloween Posted : 16 Oct, 2010 06:33 PM I certainly don't suggest you have the porch light on inviting the trickers and treaters. If you say you're a Christian, and your neighbors are told that you are, and they see your light on greeting the costumed kids--what may they think? 1Th 5:21-22 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. Abstain from all appearance of evil.--If they're lost, and if you're the Christian example they're looking at and see halloween's ok w/ you, well....You're inviting them to unbiblical practices. How bout a sign in the yard saying "Halloween is of satan." Just an example. No, I'd say inviting them is too close to accepting and supporting the wicked day. Post Reply
View Profile History	Halloween Posted : 16 Oct, 2010 07:33 PM The problem with Halloween is that regardless of it's roots it is not a Holy day that was given to us by God. Of course, most Christians today don't celebrate any of them anyway and have accepted the "new" holidays like Christmas and Easter. Halloween is another one of them. It is the night the pagans dance with the dead. The problem here is that your opinion of whether or not celebrating Halloween is a sin is not important. The fact is that it is deeply rooted in demonic activity and pagan worship. Therefore Christians should not participate in it. Is it a sin to participate? Well that depends on what your definition of "is" is. Really? If you have to ask then it probably is a sin. Mark asked, "What makes a thing sinful?" A sinful act is any act of disobedience that violates God's Word and God's Word tells us not to participate in the practices of pagans. Therefore any participation in anything related to Halloween is a sin. Including Trunk or Treat or handing out tracts or keeping a jack o lantern in the window or whatever. Thunder Post Reply
View Profile History	Halloween Posted : 16 Oct, 2010 11:43 PM hey Pixie i have been reading through this and i have my opinions, some from biblical back ground and some personal convictions, and some things that GOD revealed. i had this question a year ago, and i for my self will not have anything to do with halloween on any level, i actually was trying to get my college group to do an actual harvest party having nothing to do with halloween, but more to celebrate the season of the harvest, my church takes over the county fairgrounds where i live and try to do a "safe alternative to halloween" due to my personal convictions i will have nothing to do with it, i wont help, i wont donate candy nothing this though is between me and god and i don't want to force my views on anyone else, but i see halloween as a day celebrating EVIL, i had a friend who was wicken and for her as a christian knowing what it meant as a witch caused her to not want anything to do with it. i may be old fashioned in my views, but that's the way it is, i know in the bible it says not let even the appearance of evil be among you! as for easter i celebrate the crucifixion and resurrection, btu for CHRISTmas i am ok with gift giving as per the biblical standard set by the wise men giving gifts to baby jesus on or around CHRISTmas time, for me CHRISTmas is all about JESUS CHRIST, if it is not glorifying to God then why do it? if there is any question about it then don't do it! i hope this helps, and some of my friends agree with my views, but as a majority they do not, B.I.C. ~Anthony Post Reply
View Profile History	Halloween Posted : 17 Oct, 2010 03:25 PM You speak the truth there, Thunder. Post Reply
DontHitThatMark View Profile History	Halloween Posted : 18 Oct, 2010 08:19 AM Paul said it was ok to eat food offered to idols. Sounds like the same principle to me. He said that those that were weak in the faith were the ones that abstained. Is celebrating birthdays a pagan practice? Romans 14:1-14 (King James Version) 1Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations. 2For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs. 3Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him. 4Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand. 5One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. 6He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks. 7For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. 8For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's. 9For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living. 10But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. 11For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. 12So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God. 13Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother's way. :stop:14I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean. :peace::peace: Post Reply
DontHitThatMark View Profile History	Halloween Posted : 18 Oct, 2010 08:22 AM So what makes a period of time unclean? :peace::peace: Post Reply
View Profile History	Halloween Posted : 18 Oct, 2010 09:29 AM Mark, I understand where you are coming from but I have to disagree with you. It is one thing for us to celebrate birthdays or national holidays that are not sanctioned by God and to participate in something that is so diametrically opposed to Him. The Apostle Paul told the early church that they were not to participate in the practices of those who went to the pagan temples. Throughout the Old Testament the Jewish nation was condemned for partaking of the pagan practices, especially those of Ashtaroth and Baal as well as Molech. Unless you have spent your entire life in a cave and just came out this morning you must know that Halloween is a very specifically Satanic event. It is blatant in it's purpose as the night to dance with the dead and is also a celebration of the morbid and macabre. This is the place that for me is where the rubber meets the road and one of the reasons I separate myself from Christianity. As long as the church can find a way to justify participating in this wickedness through ridiculous things like Harvest Festivals and Trunk or Treat they are far from following the Word of God. Missing the mark is missing the mark. If you put a few drops of ink in a glass of water it turns just as black as if you poured in the entire bottle. Joh 3:17 For God did not send His Son to the world that he may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him; Joh 3:18 he who is believing in him is not judged, but he who is not believing hath been judged already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. Joh 3:19 `And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil; Joh 3:20 for every one who is doing wicked things hateth the light, and doth not come unto the light, that his works may not be detected; Joh 3:21 but he who is doing the truth doth come to the light, that his works may be manifested, that in God they are having been wrought.' Thunder Post Reply
DontHitThatMark View Profile History	Halloween Posted : 18 Oct, 2010 12:22 PM Where is the "drop of ink" coming from though? The people that have said they don't see anything wrong with doing stuff on Halloween have their focus either on non-pagan things or focused on bringing people to God. If they are dressing up as demons/the undead and handing out bible tracts, or if they are using "bible stuff" as an excuse to celebrate pagan holidays, or if they see nothing wrong with dressing up as Satan, then I could see the "ink", but they say they are dedicating their efforts to God, so...I think the bible says not to judge them. You may abstain from doing things on Halloween if you wish, just do not condemn others that are trying to serve God on that day. They will answer to God for what their motives and actions, not us. That's what I think Paul is saying. :peace::peace: Post Reply
View Profile History	Halloween Posted : 18 Oct, 2010 03:29 PM But Mark, regardless, it is a pagan holiday and Christians are to have nothing to do with them. I understand that Christians can serve God on that day and that's fine. I'm talking about doing things that show approval of the pagan celebration on that day. This is the same attitude that makes Christmas and Easter ok too. Both of them are rooted in sun worship and have nothing to do with God. They were made into Christian holidays by the church but are not commanded or sanctioned by God. Thunder Post Reply

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